Illumination and Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie at $372.5M worldwide is the second highest grossing movie in the Nintendo videogame plumbers big screen franchise behind 2023’s Super Mario Bros‘ $387.8M, but, damn, did this sequel make a ton of cash this weekend.
Overseas in 80 territories, and more than 23,500 locations and 54,000 screens, part two did $182.4M while U.S. and Canada rang up $190M over the Wednesday through Easter stretch (and $130.9M over the Friday through Sunday span).
When it comes to the success of Super Mario Galaxy Movie “the franchise operates in a galaxy of its own in terms of its box office potential, capitalizing on its beloved IP and benefitting from the success of the 2023 film that generated massive goodwill thus adding box office momentum to its opening weekend potential. We will look for, as they say in the parlance of video gaming,
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